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100 1  Hutton, Diana,|eauthor. 
245 12 A grave above ground :|ba beggar's tale|h[Hoopla 
       electronic resource] /|cDiana Hutton. 
250    Unabridged. 
264  1 [United States] :|bAuthor's Republic,|c2018. 
264  2 |bMade available through hoopla 
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511 1  Read by Diana Hutton. 
520    An unwanted pregnancy leads a bright young woman into a 
       life she could never have imagined. Unique, sad and 
       sometimes darkly humorous, "A Grave above Ground" is a 
       beggar's tale. It is about how easily life can change, 
       escape from persecution as a refugee and the beauty and 
       limits experienced with the healing power of love and 
       care. It's about reconciliation with loss and pain as well
       as awakening and closure. We are in Spain as we follow the
       life and thoughts of Mara, a Romanian beggar who sits, day
       after day, on the pavement outside a bank in Madrid. 
       Little by little her past takes shape, her tragic past, as
       she reflects on the members of her family, as she 
       describes the village of her childhood, the hardships of 
       Ceausescu's Roumania, her relationships - one of which was
       her downfall. She takes the reader through her happy but 
       troubled youth, her dysfunctional family, her loves and 
       follies, an unwanted pregnancy, the sordid kidnapping of 
       her baby by the Romanian authorities and the fruitless 
       search for the infant in the Bucharest orphanages. We 
       experience her flight from Roumania, abuse as a refugee 
       and illegal immigrant throws her life into a sad downward 
       spiral and near psychological collapse. After years of 
       begging and loneliness fate offers her a chance and 
       rescues her through a 'flu epidemic, landing comatose in 
       the caring environment of a small Madrid hospital. After 
       all this, can she find the strength to escape from the 
       depths into which she has fallen? Mara's is a tale of 
       sadness, of a woeful start to life and an ambiguous 
       ending. 
538    Mode of access: World Wide Web. 
650  0 Romanians|zSpain|vFiction. 
650  0 Beggars|vFiction. 
650  0 Refugees|zRomania|vFiction. 
650  0 Literature. 
651  0 Romania|xSocial conditions|y20th century|vFiction. 
700 1  Hutton, Diana. 
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